RE: Does the world need religion, even if it doesn't need God?
January 24, 2012 at 6:48 pm
(This post was last modified: January 24, 2012 at 7:01 pm by Anomalocaris.)
(January 24, 2012 at 6:23 pm)padraic Wrote: Does the world need religion? OF course not, the world doesn't even need US, at all.
Do people need religion,en masse? Don't know. That it's virtually universal suggests (but does not prove) that they do.
That fact that people were virtually universally filthy before they discovered the wonder of bathing doesn't suggest that humans needed poor hygene, en mass.
A (slightly) better case might be made that humans tend towards indolence and would not not make the best of what they have, as a result, just as the human race may not be quite as clean as universal availability of showers might allow, so too human race may not be quite as free of religion as universal availability of scientific knowledge might permit.
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I think it was Seneca who said something like
Quote:to the wise religion religion is nonsense,to the ordinary people true,to the ruler,useful
It was Edward Gibbons.
